Manga is better than the novel

Don't get me wrong, the novel is great in which it's cute and all but it lacks substance and is mostly just the MC doting on Ravi. He does the same in the manga but characters like Dario bring out other elements of both him and the story. Dario, for example, isn't in this scene at all. We don't get an explanation of the different levels of magic, we don't see what the MC used to be like and how he differs now because he is a humble person that doesn't think about himself. Things like this give some backbone and substance to the story rather than it just being the same old doting father that we all love. For that reason, I hope that Dario either stays as the big brother of this adventuring family or others come along to set up scenes like this.